the pain and comedy of a life well lived

I am not special. I bare a title Artist which, in my case at least, has enabled my lack of focus and serial fluidity with which I travel through life, much like a dandelion seed, never quite managing to take root.

I’ve packed a few gifts under the tree as has Santa. This has been the night I have been fearing for the last couple of months, Christmas eve. Knowing that there is no money for gifts, you see Santa isn’t poor, so I would have to kill Santa.

I would normally leave this on my academic site, but this stuff is really interesting. It is not poetry, but it is poetic in a synthetic way. Hope you find it as intriguing as I do, and travel further down the rabbit hole.

With the War on Drugs being hailed as an overwhelming failure worldwide, why is it still waging on? US President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions have thrown the media into a whirlwind by reconfirming their commitment to the failed policies, whilst other countries such as Portugal, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Uruguay now have longitudinal data available to prove that none of what the fear-mongers have said has any statistical validity. Legalization and de-criminalisation of illicit substances is a solution that is not perfect but is proving better than the current strategies.

This report discusses the foundation of drug law worldwide and shows a brief overview of what has happened since.

Drugs and Billie Holiday

In 1939 the beautiful jazz singer Billie Holiday became one of the first celebrity targets for the unofficial war on drugs. The lately defunct department of prohibition became the Federal Bureau of…

He was hot, dirty and bloody and barrelling back to his camp,
Leaving a battalion of fresh young boys behind him, they weren’t moving anymore.
He had murder in his eyes and fire in his breath
as he searched for a man soon to have appreciation for the consequences of his decisions,
In a tropical paradise, de-evolved.